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Pierre Poilievre wants Canadians to 'dream' big like Sir John A. Macdonald

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I've never been a fan judging something a politician did ages ago, because, well, no one would ever think of doing something like that now. They were different times. Explain history, don't cover it and try to eliminate it.

Anyway, his views on this subject are refreshing, for a change.




The resurrection of Sir John A. Macdonald represents the rise, once again, of the great country of Canada.

And it’s about to happen!

Don’t look now but while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent nine years trying to bury our country’s first prime minister for good, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre is not only trying to bring Sir John A. Macdonald back into Canada’s narrative but he’s also saying Canadians need to be proud what he built for us.

Macdonald and all of the fathers of Confederation built such a great country that the next American president Donald Trump keeps saying he wants it for the United States.

Poilievre, who took to X on Saturday to post a “happy birthday” message to Sir John A. Macdonald, has already said, it’s never going to happen.

But he also says it’s starts by Canada ending the nasty rewriting of history and cancellation of our historical figures based on the standards or political agendas of the day.

“We’re going to take back control and put our country first,” Conservative Leader Poilievre declared Thursday.

It needed to be said – and it couldn’t have been said at a better time.

While the World Economic Forum tries to shine up Mark Carney after decades of swimming in the deep state’s posh high life to replace not-so sunny ways Trudeau to become Canada’s 24th prime minister, the man who has earned this job, and apprenticed for it, is reminding Canadians that to get back their prosperous country they’ll have to wrestle it away from the woke crowd that tore it all down.



Pierre Poilievre: "Happy Birthday Sir John A Macdonald. We're uncancelling him in 2025."

People know it won’t be Liberals who will do that. They are the ones who led the erasing of anyone they thought did not fit their ideology.

Where to start? Look in any direction and there are fires burning and Canadians drowning.

Poilievre rightly said to take it back Canada to where it needs to be “means rebuilding our economy, bringing home production, rebuilding our military, supporting a strong border, reinstating controls on immigration, and most of all, being proud of our country and unapologetic for our history.”

Our colonial history. Our triumphs, our failures, our success and our warts.

There is way more to celebrate about Canada than there is to be embarrassed about. And in the years ahead, Canadians are going to have a chance to cheer again.

This means when a new Canadian comes to Canada, they can believe in Canada first. Enough of putting down Canada. Enough of erasing our past heroes by torquing their words or actions from a different era to fit a political agenda.

“We need to honour our past and our shared values,” said Poilievre. “We need to live out the dream that started with John A. MacDonald. Yes, I said John A. MacDonald who believed in an independent and sovereign Canada.”

You heard it right.

Finally, for the first time in a long time, we we have a federal leader ready to fight for Canada and the people who founded it.

“We need to uphold our heroes. Stop tearing down our symbols,” said Poilievre, adding we need to “remind people who come here that when they’re given a Canadian flag and they land on Canadian soil, that it’s the greatest gift on earth and that they should be proud to be part of the Canadian family.”

Macdonald started it all. Queen Victoria is part of that, too. So are our troops who went to battle and our iconic prime ministers from Laurier to King to Diefenbaker to Pearson to Trudeau Sr. to Harper.

It means honouring our Indigenous people and all of our immigrants, and accepting mistakes of the past and learning from them, while not tearing each other down based on actions or words from a generation that didn’t have Human Rights Commissions.

As said by my colleague Bryan Passifiume, who covered this news conference, “The tide is turning and people are no longer interested in cancel culture.”

https://torontosun.com/news/local-n...adians-to-dream-big-like-sir-john-a-macdonald
 
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Shaquille Oatmeal

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I am not a big fan of overt hero worship of these early politicians.
They may have done their part in establishing Canada. Give them credit for it.
They also have their shortcomings. Acknowledge it and learn from it.
No need to elevate them or trash them entirely.
The younger generation is not going to start shedding tears of patriotism because Pierre says so.
 

JuanGoodman

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The younger generation is not going to start shedding tears of patriotism because Pierre says so.
but they should

here is your idiot prime minster's view on who is more Canadian than Canadian's themselves

he has to be high on his legal weed to say this :ROFLMAO:


"A dramatic enactment by a sub-standard thinker trying to virtue smart himself to death." :ROFLMAO:
 

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Whenever I hear politicians ‘reminiscing’ about historical greatness, as some have recently, I think about the movements in Italy and Germany in the 20s and 30s, respectively. Ancient Roman greatness and Aryan greatness. We know how that all went. Best to remember history and to improve on the current situation, not to strive to ‘Make Canada Great Again’, by returning to the past. We were always great, and continue to be great, despite our weaknesses.
 

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but they should

here is your idiot prime minster's view on who is more Canadian than Canadian's themselves

he has to be high on his legal weed to say this :ROFLMAO:


"A dramatic enactment by a sub-standard thinker trying to virtue smart himself to death." :ROFLMAO:
He was being welcoming to immigrants.
There is no reason to read meanings into this.
 
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JuanGoodman

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There is no reason to read meanings into this.
you are absolutely right

there is no meaning to anything he says

" Justin rants like Kanye West - it sounds passionate like it means something profound but if you have the wherewithal to stop and think about what he's really saying, its a stretch to find any rational meaning " :)
 

Shaquille Oatmeal

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by saying that immigrants are more Canadian than Canadians themselves?:ROFLMAO:

welcome to Canada would suffice
He is saying that immigrants who consciously choose Canada as their home, belong to Canada as much as the ones who had an accident of birth here.
In light of current trends where some natural born people who would tell immigrants to go back to where they came from.
That is a good and welcoming thing to say.
I dont see any reason to take it too literally, and be up in arms about it.
 
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He is saying that immigrants who consciously choose Canada as their home, belong to Canada as much as the ones who had an accident of birth here.
In light of current trends where some natural born people who would tell immigrants to go back to where they came from.
That is a good and welcoming thing to say.
I dont see any reason to take it too literally, and be up in arms about it.
Being Canadian by default is probably not the words he should be using.

And the leftists wonder where the great replacement theory comes from, lol.
 

Shaquille Oatmeal

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Being Canadian by default is probably not the words he should be using.

And the leftists wonder where the great replacement theory comes from, lol.
What words should he have used then?
Why does the right care anyway?
Aren't they excited to surrender Canada to the US as the 51st state?
 

JuanGoodman

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What words should he have used then?
what's wrong with saying

"welcome to Canada, the best country in the world"

Canada used to be a beacon of civility and prosperity on the world's stage until Trudeau took the reins

I hope that Poilievre will succeeded in bringing some of that greatness back so we can all be proud to be Canadian again
 
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Shaquille Oatmeal

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The last question nullifies this post.
I am glad you see the contradiction amongst the right.
On the one hand these "Canadians" are pissed off at Trudeau's welcoming message because he said "this is your country more than it is for others".
And on the other they are willing to join the US as the 51st state which is treasonous.
 
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what's wrong with saying
"welcome to Canada, the best country in the world"
" This is your country more than it is for others" :ROFLMAO:
Nothing wrong with saying either.
The former is formal.
The latter is a little more welcoming and shows hospitality. Like saying "Mi casa es su casa".
Neither is a vilification of people born and raised here.
But wanting to become the 51st state of the US, is. lol.
 
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